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Top 30 Chuck Yeager Quotes (2024 Update)

Chuck Yeager Quote: “Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most.”

1. “Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most.”

— Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager Quote: “You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up.”

2. “You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up.”

— Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager Quote: “If you can walk away from a landing, it’s a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it’s an outstanding landing.”

3. “If you can walk away from a landing, it’s a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it’s an outstanding landing.”

— Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager Quote: “At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results.”

4. “At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results.”

— Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager Quote: “The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.”

5. “The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.”

— Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager Quote: “Rules are made for people who aren’t willing to make up their own.”

6. “Rules are made for people who aren’t willing to make up their own.”

— Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager Quote: “Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever I was doing.”

7. “Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever I was doing.”

— Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager Quote: “The best pilots fly more than the others; that’s why they’re the best.”

8. “The best pilots fly more than the others; that’s why they’re the best.”

— Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager Quote: “If you want to grow old as a pilot, you’ve got to know when to push it, and when to back off.”

9. “If you want to grow old as a pilot, you’ve got to know when to push it, and when to back off.”

— Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager Quote: “I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.”

10. “I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.”

— Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager Quote: “You concentrate on what you are doing, to do the best job you can, to stay out of serious situations. And that’s the way the X-1 was.”

11. “You concentrate on what you are doing, to do the best job you can, to stay out of serious situations. And that’s the way the X-1 was.”

— Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager Quote: “Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn’t in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.”

12. “Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn’t in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.”

— Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager Quote: “You don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.”

13. “You don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.”

— Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager Quote: “The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.”

14. “The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.”

— Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager Quote: “There’s no such thing as a natural-born pilot.”

15. “There’s no such thing as a natural-born pilot.”

— Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager Quote: “Never wait for trouble.”

16. “Never wait for trouble.”

— Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager Quote: “Everybody that I’ve ever seen that enjoyed their job was very good at it.”

17. “Everybody that I’ve ever seen that enjoyed their job was very good at it.”

— Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager Quote: “In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.”

18. “In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.”

— Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager Quote: “What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn’t help anything. You better try and figure out what’s happening and correct it.”

19. “What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn’t help anything. You better try and figure out what’s happening and correct it.”

— Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager Quote: “That to me is a bunch of crap trying to shoot guys up into damned space. What they’re going to do is they’re going to wipe out half a dozen people one of these days, and that will be the end of it.”

20. “That to me is a bunch of crap trying to shoot guys up into damned space. What they’re going to do is they’re going to wipe out half a dozen people one of these days, and that will be the end of it.”

— Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager Quote: “There is no kind of ultimate goal to do something twice as good as anyone else can. It’s just to do the job as best you can. If it turns out good, fine. If it doesn’t, that’s the way it goes.”

21. “There is no kind of ultimate goal to do something twice as good as anyone else can. It’s just to do the job as best you can. If it turns out good, fine. If it doesn’t, that’s the way it goes.”

— Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager Quote: “I ran the astronaut school for six years, and I was the commandant and when I finished in ’65, 26 of my guys went into space as NASA astronauts that I trained.”

22. “I ran the astronaut school for six years, and I was the commandant and when I finished in ’65, 26 of my guys went into space as NASA astronauts that I trained.”

— Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager Quote: “I have no regrets about my life. People ask, “If you had to do it all over again, would you do it differently?” No. That’s speculation.”

23. “I have no regrets about my life. People ask, “If you had to do it all over again, would you do it differently?” No. That’s speculation.”

— Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager Quote: “After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, “Man, you made a big mistake.””

24. “After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, “Man, you made a big mistake.””

— Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager Quote: “The one word you use in military flying is duty. It’s your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It’s duty.”

25. “The one word you use in military flying is duty. It’s your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It’s duty.”

— Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager Quote: “Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.”

26. “Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.”

— Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager Quote: “Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don’t do, you don’t believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.”

27. “Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don’t do, you don’t believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.”

— Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager Quote: “It wasn’t that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.”

28. “It wasn’t that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.”

— Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager Quote: “I don’t think about life everlasting. If something doesn’t have scientific evidence to back it up, I don’t believe it. I’m a straight shooter.”

29. “I don’t think about life everlasting. If something doesn’t have scientific evidence to back it up, I don’t believe it. I’m a straight shooter.”

— Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager Quote: “You get in, You shoot, You get out!”

30. “You get in, You shoot, You get out!”

— Chuck Yeager

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